Working It Quotes
527 quotes by 478 authors
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This partisan decision by a packed GOP state Supreme Court takes away worker's rights to bargain for a safe place to work. It underscores the…
— Chris Larson
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I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his…
— Piper Kerman
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I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is…
— Aliko Dangote
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What I think I do is to relate any new material to how similar it is to something else. The closest that I can come…
— Tal Farlow
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The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It’s like a commune and…
— Ben Daniels
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If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again,…
— Toni Morrison
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Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but -- and to the…
— George W. Bush
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There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would…
— Kurt Cobain
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I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does.…
— Pete Conrad
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I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed…
— Shaun Tan
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It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to…
— Ayumi Hamasaki
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People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity.…
— Orison Swett Marden
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There is a world-old controversy that crops up whenever women attempt to enter a new field. Is a woman fit for that work? It would…
— Ruth Bancroft Law
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Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and defined. A period…
— William Redington Hewlett
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What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a…
— Andromeda Romano-Lax
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A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it
— Hesiod
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When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
— Jonathan Ive
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The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but…
— Donald A. Norman
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